Four hundred years after the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived on th...
HAMPTON, Va. - Four hundred years after the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived on the coast of Virginia, the descendants of one of the first black American families say race relations in the United States still have “a long way to go.”
“The race issues have always been here,” said Vincent Tucker, the president of the William Tucker 1624 Society who believes he is nine or 10 generations removed from William Tucker, born in Virginia in 1624 after his parents were transported from present-day Angola in 1619.
Brenda Tucker, a descendent of one of the first black Americans William Tucker whose parents were brought from Angola on the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619, pays her respects at a family member's grave at the Tucker family cemetery in Hampton, Virginia, U.S., July 27, 2019. REUTERS/Michael A.
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